Acquiring contemporary art is about passion and lust, but it is also about branding, about the back story that comes with the art, about the relationship of money and status, and, sometimes, about celebrity. The Supermodel and the Brillo Box follows Don Thompson's 2008 bestseller The $12 Million Stuffed Shark and offers a further journey of discovery into what the Crash of 2008 did to the art market and the changing methods that the major auction houses and dealerships have implemented since then. It describes what happened to that market after the economic implosion following the collapse of Lehman Brothers and offers insights and art-world tales from dealers, auction houses, and former executives of each, from New York and London to Abu Dhabi and Beijing. It begins with the story of a wax, trophy-style, nude upper-body sculpture of supermodel Stephanie Seymour by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, which sold for $2.4 million to New York über-collector and private dealer Jose Mugrabi, and recounts the story of a wooden Brillo box that sold for $722,500. The Supermodel and the Brillo Box looks at the increasing dominance of Christie's, Sotheby's, and a few über dealers; the hundreds of millions of new museums coming up in cities like Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Beijing; the growing importance of the digital art world; and the shrinking role of the mainstream gallery.

人，渴望自由，但自由并不意味可以获得幸福，人的“痛苦”往往就是缘起自由。爱情的自由，亦然。
爱情的“痛”，不是不自由，而恰恰是人的自由所带来的。失恋，离异的“痛”就是爱情自由的一种代价。
在现代社会中，自由恋爱作为一种力量，最终导致了婚姻市场的兴起，当婚姻成为一种市场，爱情自然会有价码：地位、金钱、权力和美貌——尽管这些筹码是以自由的名义。然而人的自由却不能确保带来地位、金钱、权力和美貌，所以，爱情的伟大和纯粹，自然会变得脆弱和廉价，甚至沦为一种标签。
本书作者伊娃•易洛斯，杰出的社会学家，“美国社会学联盟最佳图书奖”获得者，围绕“爱与痛”的主题，摈弃传统的心理分析，以女性独特的睿智，详尽解析现代爱情之痛的社会成因,让每个渴望爱情、正在经历爱情，或走向婚姻的人，始终保持一份清醒。
也许我们永远无法回答：爱，为什么痛？我们只能给出如何获得“爱”的种种可能。

“韩国八零后天才女作家”金爱烂
第二十七届申东晔创作奖获奖作品
未来文学家奖得主 张怡微 作序《“我想抓住那道光”》
“喜欢金爱烂的读者，很容易就会捕捉到千变万化的文学创造背后那双犀利的女性冷眼……现实冷峻如雪，作家将这些体验都划归为生活本来的样子，它是有温度的，是寒冷的。与此同时，它也是有光芒的。”
《滔滔生活》是金爱烂的第二部短篇小说集，共收入八篇作品。这些故事写成长于饺子馆的女孩在雨水倒灌的首尔半地下出租屋里肆意弹琴，写都会女性极度疲惫而辛劳的职场生涯，有城市青年囿于物质的缺乏无法体面过圣诞节，写丈夫出轨与负债的妈妈靠开面馆养大女儿……它们聚焦了城市中那些看似平常、边缘，实则每天都在与生活无声抗争的可敬的普通人；这些充满想象力和智慧的文字就像在平淡无奇的日常生活中积聚起来的一汪水，读者映照出自己，辨认出生活的重压之下个人的内心曲折。

◆脏话一定辱“她”？男人讲话不能“娘”吗？女人总是“婆婆妈妈”？
◇日常语言中处处隐藏着性别偏见！是时候掀起一场女性主义语言革命了！
◇和炫词狂魔阿曼达·蒙特尔一起，用恶女力重构我们的语言
◇在嬉笑怒骂中粉碎父权制的堡垒
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◆人从一出生就在学习语言，但你有没有想过：我们为什么这样说话？性别是否会影响我们讲话的方式？日常语言中是否也存在着性别偏见？语言本身是厌女的吗？
是时候挑战我们最习以为常的语言了！在这本书中，你将知道：许多脏话最初并不“辱女”；男人比女人更容易喋喋不休；八卦从来不是女性的专属……语言学家阿曼达·蒙特尔教你从容击破语言背后的父权结构，游刃有余地发挥语词的力量，用重新定义的语言创造每个人都能得到尊重的世界。
◆准备好了吗？在轻松科普、爆笑评论和引人入胜的女性主义思想中，开启一场酣畅淋漓的语言学冒险！
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◆语言“恶”女？直击日常语言背后的性别偏见！
◇为什么大多数脏话都有侮辱女性的意味？为什么默认“保洁”为女而“保安”为男？为什么男人不可以“娘娘腔”“像个娘们”？为什么女人讲话总被认为肤浅做作？我们习以为常的语言的表层之下，隐藏着性别偏见。翻开这本书，跟着语言学家阿曼达·蒙特尔去父权制的语言系统大搅一局！深入思考性别如何影响我们说话和理解他人的方式，向贬低和限制女性的日常语言发起挑战。
◆发挥恶女之力，用话语粉碎父权制，从语言中重获力量！
◇这是一本女性主义语言指南，囊括各种实用策略：怎样不厌女地说脏话，怎样性别友好地称呼他人，如何反击那些打断女性发言、攻击女性的声音，如何轻松自在地表达自己……这本恶女宝典将教你打破语言背后的不平等结构，重塑语言的使用方式，用语言为自己赋权，用收复回来、重新定义的语言，建立一个更平等、更放松、更富有同情心、更少人会被冒犯的世界。
◆语言学原来这么有趣！
◇坐上酷飒语言学家的探险飞船，前往性别和语言交叉的迷幻宇宙，穿梭在历史和流行文化之间，领略脏话侮辱、闲聊八卦、流行俚语、气泡音和夹子音的奥秘。不必担心令人眼花缭乱的语言学知识和语言变革潮流产生的颠簸，沿途有轻松有趣的故事、犀利俏皮的评论，也有让每个人乐在其中的女性主义思想始终相伴，让你在大笑之余思考语言的力量。
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每读完一段书中对英语的充满活力的迷人批评，你都会感觉自己变得更聪明了。——《破产姐妹》编剧、制片人 惠特妮·卡明
一口气读完这本书之后，你就可以在聚会上迅速拿出书中有趣的知识来让那些喋喋不休的男人闭嘴。——《时尚》

“我们坚信，‘更多的声音’永远是通向全新世界的路径。” 2015 年，由韩国女性劳动者会策划并创作了一档女性主义播客“乙们的驴耳”，后邀请女性主义理 论研究学者、作家孙希定作为播客主播。本书精选该播客节目的热门内容“大众文化与性别”集结成书，在韩国正式出版后迅速引发关注，并成为当年图书网站的年度非虚构作品之一。 本书以“娱乐解剖”作为方法，彻底拆解“韩娱”奇观背后的“厌女”病灶，开出犀利的体检报告和解毒指南，每一句都是炮轰父权制大众文化的粉红炸弹。同时，本书也是一份从性别视角出发的当代娱乐文化警世录，更是对其他可能性的期待与召唤：在对文化工业的审慎观看与批判性思考中，新的视角，新的叙事，终将到来。

史考特·亚当斯，影响世界的《呆伯特》漫画作者、职业演说家、畅销书作家。在《我的人生样样稀松照样赢》中，他以其独特的诙谐手法写下了他对成功的种种思考，以及他是如何与失败相处，最终走向成功的，并对关于成功要素的陈词滥调进行了讽刺，鼓励人们根据自己的情况去探索属于自己的成功模式。他认为目标是属于失败者的，大多数成功者追随的是系统，而不是目标。对于大多数人来说，最好还是“擅长两种互补技能，而不是仅仅在一个方面优秀……当我把平庸的业务技能与糟糕的艺术技巧以及我相当普通的写作才能结合起来时，得到的力量是强大的。”
史考特·亚当斯还提出了关于激情的看法，他表示成功者经常把激情说成自己成功的一个原因，是因为“所有人都可以对一些东西或其他东西有激情”。在他看来，激情是成功的副产品，而不是它的先决条件。
阅读《我的人生样样稀松照样赢》，你将在史考特·亚当斯轻松幽默的语言中了解他独特的人生经历，并在他的引导下对人生、成功、幸福进行深刻地思考，你将发现亚当斯如你我一样普通，你我也能像史考特·亚当斯一样取得成功，逆袭人生。

身居八平米，坐拥全世界
《东京八平米》是日籍华语作家吉井忍的全新散文集。八平米在日本被称为“四畳半”，即只有四个半榻榻米大小的房间，租金便宜。
因为八平米房间没有厨房和冰箱，也没有洗澡间和洗衣机，她兴致勃勃地写起如何饮食起居，以及亲历的日本庶民生活日常。居住空间逼仄，她 把生活延伸到城市的街头和公共空间，写东京的洗衣店、钱汤、咖啡馆、24小时漫咖店、独立电影院、小餐厅等等，同时写下她遇见的东京平民的故事，这些人物是“看不见的、真正的东京人”，他们的故事为我们铺陈日本的世情百态，亦照见自身。
孤独的城市里，人如何找到属于自己的地方和存在意义？吉井忍的“八平米”经济学让人看到一种充满新鲜活力的生活的可能：省下昂贵房租，物质诉求简单，在都市中享受丰富的精神文化生活。城市也可以是一个流动的家，一个人也可以快乐自足。
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孤独的城市里，人如何找到属于自己的地方和存在意义？吉井忍的“八平米”经济学让人看到一种充满新鲜活力的生活的可能：省下昂贵房租，物质诉求简单，在都市中享受丰富的精神文化生活，用自己的方式找到舒适感和归属感。城市也可以是一个流动的家，一个人也可以快乐自足。
东京曾经是“全球物价最贵城市”排名前列的常客，但这只不过是学到东京一些皮毛的外国记者们的偏见。东京其实是个适合居住的地方呢，我在心中长年抱有这样的不平，这也成为了我过去写了不少文章、做了好几本与东京相关的书的基本动力。
东京、京都、上海、北京……不管是在什么城市，吉井很擅长找出价格合理的房子。有时候她的居所只够睡觉，但在房子的外面，无论什么时候都有便捷的城市设施。你心爱的餐厅可以当作自家的餐室，喫茶店成为你的客厅，书店和图书馆是书房，健身房则是带有三温暖的浴室。
把城市当作自己的房间的延伸，并将其运用自如。吉井非常明白这个“城市生存技巧”的秘诀。这就像动物可以本能地找到最舒适的地方筑巢，也又像它们时机一到，干脆离巢飞走。
——都筑响一（独立编辑、摄影师）
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★ 身居八平米，坐拥全世界。吉井忍“八平米”经济学，展现都市生活的另一种可能。日籍华语作家吉井忍的全新散文集，献给将要创建新生活的人。——离开日本二十年后，吉井忍回到东京，租住东京中心地带的八平米房间，重建在地的生活。八平米是生活的原点，东京整个城市则是生活的延长线。物质与精神的断舍离，带来经济空间和身心自由。吉井忍的“八平米”经济学，为每一个身心俱疲的现代人提供生活的另一种可能：珍惜此时此刻，用自己的方式，找到你所需要的舒适感和归属感，赋予明天继续生活的活力。
★ 没有厨房、冰箱、洗澡间、洗衣机，如何在八平米房间自在过活？都市新型“蜗居”生活，东京深度探索指南。城市也可以是一个流动的家，一个人也可以快乐自足。——因为八平米房间空间局促，日常生活延伸到东京的街头和公共空间：洗衣店、钱汤、漫咖、小餐厅、咖啡馆，此外还有每周的独立电影院巡礼、听落语、学三味线、看展览等。便捷舒适的公共空间、生机勃勃的多元文化、热情活力的市井生活，你的“小”不成问题，因为外面的世界足够大。
★ 每个人都有自己的“八平米”。深入城市细部拜访“附近”，讲述东京平民故事，看见真正的普通人。孤独的城市里，人如何找到属于自己的地方和存在意义？——人来人往的都市中，偶尔的相遇带来宝石一般的回忆：被称为“活字典”的金星堂咖啡馆主人大泽先生、快九十岁的犀利幽默的Mako咖啡老铺女主人、热情善良勤劳的荞麦面店女店主……朴实真诚的东京人，流动隽永的东京风景，呈现生活的本真面貌。“我相信，每个人都有自己的八平米，以及对其的定义，它不指实际面积，而是指心中的某一块地方。也许八平米在别人眼里是畸形状态，但它能够让你活在自己的世界里。它也许是某个地方或某个人，在那里你不用伪装，可以好好地面对自我，尽可能地去享受当下。”
★ 著名书装设计师陆智昌操刀设计，清新典雅，质感舒适，巧妙呼应“四畳半”的布局。——著名摄影师都筑响一和作家吉井忍摄影，百余幅彩色图片呈现“八平米”和东京这座城市流动的风景。全书使用雅致书纸印刷，触感柔软，轻盈便携，适于在日常与旅途中阅读。

本书是专门写给大众患者的图书，但仍然被专业医生和训练员视为具有指导性的图书，书中通过指导个人自我评估疼痛诱发动作，进而指导个人如何避免疼痛发生和建立无痛动作模式，并提出逐步练习计划，从而指导患者最终获得无痛生活并恢复腰背健康。不仅是患者，康复医师同样会为这样系统而有循证基础的方法而折服。

世界文坛巨匠，雨果奖、星云奖得主
厄休拉·勒古恩晚年私人随笔代表作
80岁后对真正重要之事的深刻思考
“我所有的时间都被占用了。它被生活占用。”
2010年，81岁的厄休拉·勒古恩受诺奖得主若泽·萨拉马戈的影响，开始创作个人博客。本书收录了勒古恩81岁至85岁的部分博客文章。她在文章中畅谈个人生活、文学创作、社会议题、女性主义，也记录自己与爱猫相处的日常，展现了这位文坛巨匠私人化的一面，大胆、风趣、极具锋芒。
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作者把五本笔记穿插在这个故事之中，以此描写二十世纪中期整个世界的风貌。其中黑色笔记描写主人公作为作家在非洲的经历，涉及殖民主义和种族主义问题；红色笔记写她的政治生活，记录她对斯大林主义由憧憬到幻灭的思想过程，黄色笔记是作者根据自己的爱情生活所创作的一个故事，题为《第三者的影子》；蓝色笔记是她的日记，记录了主人公精神的轨迹。四本笔记于是成为一个不安宁的灵魂的四道反光。而最后的金色笔记，却是作者对人生的一种哲理性总结。在这种貌似无序的结构中，作者展示了那个混乱迷惘而多变的时代中一个失重的灵魂的探索和生存。

An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China.
China has 130 million migrant workers—the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing, tells the story of these workers primarily through the lives of two young women, whom she follows over the course of three years as they attempt to rise from the assembly lines of Dongguan, an industrial city in China’s Pearl River Delta.
As she tracks their lives, Chang paints a never-before-seen picture of migrant life—a world where nearly everyone is under thirty; where you can lose your boyfriend and your friends with the loss of a mobile phone; where a few computer or English lessons can catapult you into a completely different social class. Chang takes us inside a sneaker factory so large that it has its own hospital, movie theater, and fire department; to posh karaoke bars that are fronts for prostitution; to makeshift English classes where students shave their heads in monklike devotion and sit day after day in front of machines watching English words flash by; and back to a farming village for the Chinese New Year, revealing the poverty and idleness of rural life that drive young girls to leave home in the first place. Throughout this riveting portrait, Chang also interweaves the story of her own family’s migrations, within China and to the West, providing historical and personal frames of reference for her investigation.
A book of global significance that provides new insight into China,Factory Girls demonstrates how the mass movement from rural villages to cities is remaking individual lives and transforming Chinese society, much as immigration to America’s shores remade our own country a century ago.

本书作者阿莉·拉塞尔·霍赫希尔德是美国知名社会学家和作家，其所创作的书籍皆与当下美国社会中备受人关注的议题相关，而本书则是她对极化政治现象越来越明显的美国保守派人士的一次深入调查，是一本社会学家所谓的“探索性”及“假设生成”的研究性著作。
霍赫希尔德在路易斯安那州选取了60个人进行交流与访谈，又在其中40个核心访谈对象中选出了6人做了深入剖析，在4000多页访谈记录的基础上写成了此书，通过展现他们生活的多个方面，以及对环保问题的不同看法，挖掘了当下美国社会中保守派人士内心的深层故事，对我们深入了解今日之美国社会尤其有帮助，向我们展示了此前不太为人所知的美国社会的一个面向。
【内容简介】
2016年，唐纳德·特朗普以共和党总统候选人的身份赢得美国总统大选之际，困惑不已的美国国民翻开《故土的陌生人》，试图了解保守派的阶级、种族、教育背景、宗教环境，以及工业、政府、媒体等社交领域对其政治之下的情感所产生的影响。作为当代最具影响力的社会学家之一，阿莉·拉塞尔·霍赫希尔德在大选前五年深入茶党大本营——路易斯安那州莱克查尔斯一带的社区，以环境污染为锁孔问题，探索保守派人士的一个个深层故事，寻找攀越美国保守派与自由派间“同理心之墙”的可能性。
【本书获誉】
★2016年美国国家图书奖入围作品
★2016年《纽约时报》最值得关注作品
★2016年《新闻日》十大好书
★2016年《科克斯》年度好书
★《纽约时报》所评“理解特朗普胜选的六本书”之一
所有对政治感兴趣且还未准备好放弃的美国人的必读之书。
——琼·布莱兹，起居室对话组织、天下母亲组织及前进组织共同创始人
堪称典范……迄今对特朗普背后对抗情绪的社会基础及右翼平民主义整体最清晰的记叙性说明文。
——罗伯特·库特纳，《美国展望》
在这个仿佛世界末日将近的时刻，阿莉·拉塞尔·霍赫希尔德的《故土的陌生人》无疑是场及时雨……值得一读。
——肖恩·麦卡恩，《洛杉矶书评》
《故土的陌生人》……为了解一些选民如何感到疏离和脱节提供了极佳视角。
——米奇·兰德里欧，新奥尔良市市长，《政客杂志》
一本令人震惊而眼界大开的书。
——海伦·刘易斯，《新政治家》
《故土的陌生人》的非同寻常之处在于其始终如一的同理心及对政治中情感领域的关注。它被称为应景之作，却能经得住时间的考验。
——加布里埃尔·汤普森，《新闻日报》
霍赫希尔德超越了老生常谈，即支持小政府和减税而不那么富裕的选民的投票不符合自身的经济利益……《故土的陌生人》颠覆了对红脖子的漫画式描绘，展现出一群尊严常常遭忽视之人。
——多顿·阿金多耶，《奥普拉杂志》
霍赫希尔德对人们如何认识自己的生活有浓厚兴趣……这些细致详尽的描述……揭示了霍赫希尔德笔下的‘故土的陌生人’与新一代精英间的巨大分歧。
——杰迪戴亚·珀迪，《新共和》
霍赫希尔德怀着同情心和同理心找到了一种叙述，给（这些人的）生活赋以意义，令他们的经历为人所知——同时解释了他们的政治信念及其他许许多多。想要了解当代美国的人都应该读读这本引人入胜的书。
——罗伯特·莱希，加州大学伯克利分校公共政策学院教授
在当今美国政治中，没有更重要的话题，亦无人能剖析得更为透彻。每一页——每个故事和人物——都让人着迷，书中的分析令人深受启发。
——芭芭拉·埃伦赖希，《我在底层的生活》、《我的失序人生》作者
极富同情心……如今，关于政策、立法乃至事实的问题几乎都从公众话语中消失不见，取而代之的是对候选人‘气质’及品牌的辩论，在这样一个时代，（霍赫希尔德的）分析可谓姗姗来迟。
——纳撒尼尔·里奇，《纽约书评》

Drawing is at the heart of human creativity. The most democratic form of art-making, it requires nothing more than a plain surface and a stub of pencil, a piece of chalk or an inky brush. Our prehistoric ancestors drew with natural pigments on the walls of caves, and every subsequent culture has practised drawing - whether on papyrus, parchment or paper. Artists throughout history have used drawing as part of the creative process.While painting and sculpture have been shaped heavily by money and influence, drawing has always offered extraordinary creative latitude. Here we see the artist at his or her most unguarded. Susan Owens offers a glimpse over artists' shoulders - from Michelangelo, Rembrandt and Hokusai to Van Gogh, Käthe Kollwitz and Yayoi Kusama - as they work, think and innovate, as they scrutinise the world around them or escape into their imaginations. The Story of Drawing loops around the established history of art, sometimes staying close, at other times diving into exhilarating and altogether less familiar territory.

The magnum opus of one of the world's leading origami artists, the second edition of Origami Design Secrets reveals the underlying concepts of origami and how to create original origami designs. Containing step-by-step instructions for 26 models, this book is not just an origami cookbook or list of instructions--it introduces the fundamental building blocks of origami, building up to advanced methods such as the combination of uniaxial bases, the circle/river method, and tree theory. With corrections and improved illustrations, this new expanded edition also covers uniaxial box pleating, introduces the new design technique of hex pleating, and describes methods of generalizing polygon packing to arbitrary angles. With coverage spanning the foundations of origami construction and advanced methods using both paper and pencil and custom-built free software, Origami Design Secrets helps readers cultivate the intuition and skills necessary to develop their own designs. It takes them beyond merely following a recipe to crafting a work of art.

This provocative book of photography offers bold new insight into the lives of the world's largest mammals, along with their complex societies. In these pages, we learn that whales share an amazing ability to learn and adapt to opportunities, from specialized feeding strategies to parenting techniques. There is also evidence of deeper, cultural elements of whale identity, from unique dialects to matrilineal societies to organized social customs like singing contests. Featuring the arresting underwater images of Brian Skerry, who has explored and documented oceans for over four decades, this book will document these alluring creatures in all their glory--and demonstrate how these majestic creatures can teach us about ourselves and our planet.

Expands the canon of American landscape art to illuminate the contributions of women artists.



Illuminating the artistic contributions and perspectives of women, this book reinserts the important 19th-century American artist Susie Barstow into the history of the Hudson River School and presents contemporary artists who expand how we think about "land" and "landscape" today. Engaging multigenerational perspectives, it launches an expanded narrative that recenters women in the canon of American landscape art.



Well known during her lifetime, Susie Barstow (1836-1922) was widely celebrated and exhibited alongside Hudson River School artists Asher B. Durand and Albert Bierstadt but was later erased from American art history. It further explores how artists working today complicate and challenge landscape through multi-disciplinary artistic practices and diverse viewpoints. Featured contemporary artists include Teresita Fernández, Marie Lorenz, Tanya Marcuse, Mary Mattingly, Ebony G. Patterson, Anna Plesset, Wendy Red Star, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Cecilia Vicuña, Kay WalkingStick, and Saya Woolfalk.



Women Reframe American Landscape, which accompanies an exhibition at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site and the New Britain Museum of American Art, includes new research, original essays by the curators, and texts and plates by the artists.

"A breath of fresh air for anyone who loves trees." ― The Seattle Times The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries 2023 Award of Excellence Winner in Botanical Art and Illustration Illustrated throughout with art in a variety of mediums: pencil, pen, and wash sketches; block prints; studio watercolors; and intaglio etchings Includes a rich natural history and brief ethnobotanical notes for each featured species Features poems and quotes from other writers and artistscelebrating our connection to trees
Artist Molly Hashimoto has appreciated trees all her life--they have shaped her as a hiker, outdoors lover, gardener, traveler, and artist. She pays homage to them through her art, working in many different media, each revealing different aspects of these stalwart companions: crisp lines, imposing silhouettes, and the subtle-or sometimes brilliant--hues of foliage. Hashimoto also delves into the process of creating art, discussing the mediums she used in the featured pieces and the reasons she chose them, as well as sidebars with tips and techniques. As in her popular Colors of the West and Birds of the West, Hashimoto emphasizes her personal experiences with nature, telling stories about her encounters with trees everywhere from her backyard to national parks and forests throughout the West. She focuses primarily on native trees, rather than cultivars, with a special interest in 46 major species found across the region, ranging from the stately Coast redwoods to the diminutive but distinctive Fishhook Barrel Cactus. Rooted in place, trees offer endless opportunities for observation, admiration, relaxation, and inspiration. Trees of the West invites us to pause and appreciate these sentinels in all their quiet glory.

A career guide for artists, covering everything they need to know about building a successful business after graduating
You have the artistic talent, but do you know how to make a success of it?
The thing they don't teach you in art school is just how active and engaged you need to be; you'll have to become your own finance, business and marketing manager, as well as a researcher, curator and administrator.

What They Didn't Teach You in Art School is the ultimate survival guide to life as an artist, and the perfect springboard for aspiring artists who haven't yet given up the day job. The book provides expert advice, tips and inspiration to help you build a successful career - giving you the opportunity to nurture your true talent.

The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio.
Ray Dalio does not want you to read this book.
Late last year, when the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund on the planet, announced that he was stepping down from the company he started out of his apartment nearly 50 years ago, the news made headlines around the world. Dalio cultivated an aura of international admiration and fame thanks to his company’s eye-popping success, coupled with a mystique he encouraged with frequent media appearances, celebrity hobnobbing, and his bestselling book, Principles. In The Fund, award-winning New York Times journalist Rob Copeland punctures this carefully-constructed narrative of the benevolent business titan, exposing his much-promoted “principles” as one of the great feats of hubris in modern memory―in practice, they encouraged a toxic culture of paranoia and backstabbing.
The Fund is a page-turning, stranger-than-fiction journey into a rarefied world of wealth and power. It offers an unflinching look at the pain so often caused by the “radical transparency” Dalio has described as a core tenet of his recipe for business success and a meaningful life. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with those inside and around the firm, Copeland takes readers into the room as former FBI director Jim Comey kisses Dalio's ring, recent Pennsylvania Senate candidate David McCormick drinks the Kool-Aid, and a rotating cast of memorable characters grapple with their personal psychological and moral limits―all under the watchful eye of their charismatic leader.
This is a cautionary tale for anyone convinced that the ability to make lots of money has anything at all to do with unlocking the principles of human nature.